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John Ondrasik is holding the Stanley Cup. The pop-rock musician has just finished coaching a team to a big hockey win and is walking across the ice to deliver sports' most famous trophy, his shoes stepping tentatively toward a far face-off circle. OK, so it isn't the actual Stanley Cup. And "coaching" may be a strong word: Ondrasik mostly stood, silent, behind a bench as his team embarked on face-offs and line changes. When your band is known as Five for Fighting — the of course sort-of-stiff penalty that players receive for throwing punches at faces instead of pucks at nets — offensive strategy isn't going to be a strong suit. Still,...

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John Ondrasik is holding the Stanley Cup.
The pop-rock musician has just finished coaching a team to a big hockey win and is walking across the ice to deliver sports' most famous trophy, his shoes stepping tentatively toward a far face-off circle.
OK,...

Times columnist Helene Elliott rates the pluses and minuses in the NHL from the last week:
+ The All-Star break interrupted five-game winning streaks for the Ducks, Detroit and Winnipeg. That success put the Ducks atop the NHL with 68 points, moved the...

Dallas Stars forward Ray Whitney, who will be 42 next month, had a lot to talk about with 43-year-old Ducks winger Teemu Selanne on Wednesday during the first game of their teams’ first-round playoff series.
And it didn’t involve swapping stories about...

Will the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins meet in the Stanley Cup finals for a third straight spring, or will the San Jose Sharks find the gumption to match their talent?
There's no consensus winner in either conference, mostly because even...

The Kings, who entered the game with a 2.20 goals-against average that ranked second in the NHL, gave up four goals in the first period to the Coyotes, who had scored a total of four in their previous four games ... .

In a listless effort that included six fruitless power plays, the Kings extended their latest losing streak to three games with a 2-0 loss to the Phoenix Coyotes before an unhappy Staples Center crowd that booed them off the ice ... .